So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.
BOETHIUSLove has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
More Boethius Quotes
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered.
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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.
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For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top.
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He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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The science of numbers ought to be preferred as an acquisition before all others, because of its necessity and because of the great secrets and other mysteries which there are in the properties of numbers. All sciences partake of it, and it has need of none.
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Love binds people too, in matrimony’s sacred bonds where chaste lovers are met, and friends cement their trust and friendship. How happy is mankind, if the love that orders the stars above rules, too, in your hearts.
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
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